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What a hero - 5/7/2013 8:34:12 PM   
warspite1


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Status: offline 		I posted this in the General Discussion forum, but knowing that most of you don't venture over there, I thought I would post here too. This gentlemen's story is simply fascinating and I am sure a lot of you will appreciate this.

Eric Winkle Brown RN

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320463/ROBERT-HARDMAN-Hero-Captain-Eric-Winkle-Brown-makes-Biggles-look-like-wimp-tells-story.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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RE: What a hero - 5/7/2013 9:02:32 PM   
goatan

 

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Status: offline 		Anyone who was willing to test the flexi deck landing system must have had balls of steel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Lu6LEQ0zo that video might actually have been him in action.

He seems to get mentioned in so many avation books as having tested just about anything and everything.

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RE: What a hero - 5/7/2013 9:10:33 PM   
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ORIGINAL: goatan

Anyone who was willing to test the flexi deck landing system must have had balls of steel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Lu6LEQ0zo that video might actually have been him in action.

He seems to get mentioned in so many avation books as having tested just about anything and everything.
warspite1

Never heard of that! Thanks for posting. Could well be the man in question!

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RE: What a hero - 5/7/2013 9:18:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Someone has just GOT to buy the rights to that movie in the making! Wow, a wonderful story. Thanks, Hal

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RE: What a hero - 5/7/2013 11:07:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have a book by him called "Wings of the Luftwaffe"about his flight testing german aircraft.
Interestingly he consideres the He-162 Salamander as being superior to the Me-262.

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RE: What a hero - 5/8/2013 12:09:15 AM   
Jim Stevens

 

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Status: offline 		Thank you God for men like this chap...

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RE: What a hero - 5/8/2013 1:10:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Anyone willing to fly a Me 163 earns my respect.

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RE: What a hero - 5/8/2013 1:54:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		According to the afformentioned book the test flight of the Me-163 he performed was an unpowered flight using a spitfire as a tug.
He had no say in the decision and was disappointed.

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RE: What a hero - 5/8/2013 4:46:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		He didnt have good things to say about the Buffalo.

http://www.warbirdforum.com/ericbrow.htm

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RE: What a hero - 5/8/2013 4:18:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Eric Brown has published quite a bit (and been a frequent contributor to the History channel). As a test pilot during and after the war, he flew an amazing number of diverse aircraft. At one time (he may still hold it) he had the record for the most types of aircraft flown by a single individual.

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RE: What a hero - 5/8/2013 10:15:53 PM   
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ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Eric Brown has published quite a bit (and been a frequent contributor to the History channel). As a test pilot during and after the war, he flew an amazing number of diverse aircraft. At one time (he may still hold it) he had the record for the most types of aircraft flown by a single individual.
warspite1

From the article:

"It is also highly unlikely that anyone will surpass Eric’s world record for flying 487 different types of aeroplane".



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